Many of our wildlife reports come from Ann Laubach. I’d bet ten dollars most of us have seen her walking in the ravine. She lives with her eyes wide open. Here’s a recent report:

Ann writes:

To answer your question about wildlife, we’ve seen a fox several times the last month, always the same one, I think, its tail looks odd, kind of poodle-like, very skinny in the middle, and then puffy at the end.  It lay down in the sun under a bush in our backyard for a while.  My neighbor two doors down had what she thought was a young buck (she said it had little antler buds) get its leg stuck on her fence.  Another neighbor had to free it with wire cutters and it limped away.  The same neighbor with the deer said she had seen the coyote for the first time, that was perhaps in January.

My family participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count over Presidents’ Day weekend.  Twenty species total, _162_ English sparrows one day, 22 robins another day.  According to the website, robins are the bird with the highest count in the GBBC (it’s supposed to be birds seen within about a mile of the address that you list, which in our case was our home.)

We also had a opossum nosing around the yard after dark recently.  And a beautiful hollow tree along Overbrook Drive near Indianola is home to at least one fat raccoon.

That’s all I can think of right now.

Ann